Improvement in skeleton skirts



, UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.l

MARKS FISIIEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND ADOLPH OPPERAND LEO POPPER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKELETON SKIRTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,182, dated January14, 1862.

.To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARKS FIsHEL, of New York, in the county and Stateof New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inSkeleton Skirts; and I do hereby declare that the following is a fulland exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of theskirt complete, and Figs. 2 to 8 are detail views of the method ofsecuring the hoops to the tapes.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

The nature of my invention consists in securing the hoops to the tapesthrough two or more eyelets inserted in the tapes for that purpose ateach intersection, with suitable means for attaching the hoops to thetape passing through the said eyelets and across a portion of the tapesituated between them.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will proceed todescribe it by the aid of the drawings.

A A A, dac., are the hoops of a skeleton skirt, constructed in theordinary manner, and B B B are wide tapes which support the hoops A intheir proper position. My invention relates entirely to the means ofsecuring these at their intersections. In the tapes B at each line wherea hoop crosses the said tape I aiix two or more eyelets O C and pass thefastenings through the said eyelets. In Figs. 2 and 3 the hoop isrepresented as passing through the eyelets; but I prefer the style shownin Figs. 4, 5, and 6, in which a clasp of metal D passes through theeyelets and seizes the hoop at each end, as clearly represented in thedrawings. By this arrangement there is a given amount of play allowed atthe fastening, which causes less strain upon the parts than when theyare rigidly secured, while all the wear occasioned thereby comes uponmetal surfaces, whereby the construction is made very durable.

Still another style of fastening is shown in Figs. 7 and 8. ln thesefigures a cord or braid is used to secure the hoops to the tapes, saidcord passing through the eyelets in the manner represented. Either ofthese forms may be used at pleasure; but I prefer that represented inFigs. 4, 5, and 6. I am aware that a fastening has been secured to atape for a similar purpose by passing an eyelet through both the claspand the tape, as in the patent granted to W. S. Thomson September 2l,1858; but such device was not equivalent to mine, inasmuch as thefastening or clasp did not pass. through the eyelet and across any part,as in mine, and the strain in that case carne allupon that portion ofthe tape which was embraced between the narrow iianges and the eyelet.This fastening was very insecure, from the well known ease with which aneyelet may be torn from a piece of cloth, while the security of myfastening is not dependent upon the attachment of the eyelets to thetape, the eyelets serving merely as metallic linings to the holesthrough which the fastening passes.

There is in the use of my invention no strain tending to tear the eyeletfrom the tape; but should one become detached from any cause thefastening remains in the same condition as regards security, except thatthe hole is liable to become enlarged by Wear; but even in that case thesecond eyelet would remain for a time and perform duty for both.

My improved means of fastening is believed to be not only simple andcheap, but also to possess advantages in durability over any heretoforeknown.

Having now fully described my improvement, what I claim as new in theconstruction of skeleton skirts, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

Securing the hoops AA to the tapes B B by means of fastenings D or theirequivalents passing through the eyelets C C and across a portion of thetape between them, substantially as and for the purposes herein setforth.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

MARKS FISHEL.

Witnesses:

G. H. BABcocK, D. W. SrETsoN.

